New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-03

seaf Is necessarily limited and conditioned. There
remaAs however, the consol tory thought that to get
real hold Of any soul Is 10 abide with that soul for
ever. Whom VIC forget we really never knew
We suppose ourselves to know many persons and OBJ
iects but in the degree In which it Is possible for us
to forget them assure ourselves that We never
knew them.
When Jesus Christ said, Lo. am with you Away.
any arbitrary persons, hunting Of the soul by an
almost visible shadow, by any companlonshlp outside
such lad been His intercourse with the disciples that
He In their spirit part of their very selves
mixed up and denificd, as 1t were, with their very
nature. In this, the deepest, br0adest, most vital
sense Jesus Christ is with his people until the end Of
The world. Why sol Because He has known them,
and they have known Him. and they enter INTO the
meaning Of Paul's marvellous utteranoe, al am
crucified with Christ nevertheless lve Yet not j,
but Christ liveth in and the life which now live
in the flesh live by faith In the Son OF God " 80 thai
addition new quality, an outlay OF soul and an IN
OF glory only to be realized after long and often
tedious and painful experience.
We know somewhat of this, even upon lower
level Who for example, can ever forget the sacred
and happy influence Of home life For time the
prodga forget tho old place, the old folks.
The cd assoc ions deb archery c,mes and works It's
mystery In the soul memory tries to dvcst ITSELF OF
all recollection, tries indeed to complete o Kind VI
moral and mental miracle but long after, In some
dark night under some keen paRg OF hunger. under
terrible sense Of loneliness, the whole vision
rises, every detail Is vivid, the heart answers the
spectacle, and the prodgal says he win arise and see
n he cannot renew in some inferior degree his rea-
lions with tho homo and the faith ehood which nc had
endeavored to abandon and forget.
Thus the home is with the child forever. and may
day be angel in the chlds life bringing him
back again to father and mother and first prayer, TO
early impression and early vow. What Is true OF
home is true Of love. The heart cannot forget nsel
This is the hold which God has upon u.s. that even
wnen we think have forgotten Him and are without
Him and are Independent Of Him, we suddenly con-
front Him and His providence and acknowledge that
cannot fee from His presence.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORD RISEN
Speaking Of Jesus Christ, the angel said, @ He Is
risen, That Is really all we want TO know III we
carry that word up its highest significance 1t VIII
suffice at once the reason and the imagination II Is
the best word that can be chosen 1t points toward
defnie direction, but it makes no attempt 10 ocaihe
and define Who can and state In plain hg-
ures tho significance Of this word "risen'f IL Is
height, distance, elevation, an unnamed place III
Gods infinite armament away beyond the sun and The
stars and the farthest light that glimmers on the
strongest telescope 1t is word which begins but
never ends. We may where the Assembled one
begins his but where and how he has ended It,
if end ii he may, we cannot tell. Inc BDie Is
wonderful in its choice OF terms IN describing INC IA,
describabe. The Bible has to encoun err as We nav
Just seen, the difficulty of language ana IN encounter
ing 1t, what other book has succeeded SO we'll
Divine inspiration. For example. the Bible describe.
the creation of the heaven and the earth: What
date does it fix the infinite miraclcl Let poetry
and then produce the results of all the process,
and what can equal the sublime words used py me
Bible, namely "In the beginning That l. The
dateess date. That is the dawn that was never seen
by created eyes the morning that Shone before any
life awoke. 1t is the beginning, yet no man can ~
cover its precise origin Geo 40 be ea rncs on Which
II laws I,s hammer its instrument OF VIVA, name
.oever Yet who would be without that NON! anS
VIC must either have one that wa local limited anu
sguae that is to a pse o S that at
lenged and satisfied the nag nation ana 'nat caiied d
upon to say about he cr ysrT rood
Take a. another instance of the choice Of words
by the Bible the description which Is gwen OF me
drat on of the Almighty himself We read ina, T T
Is . from everlasting to everlasting How wen ths
hamonfzes with the cxpicsson, III tlc u. ~. -,
The two Indications of time and space mlgh. nav ave
between everlasting and evefi1 h nnn ~
laS a line upon another period equally long: VINO
can car do the impossblel who can measure tho I'M
line assurance that the God Of Heaven and earth
wrought Ills miracles "in the beginning ana mar
He Himself is from Everlasting to everlasting
Take third instance Indicative Of the same thought
and process indicative of the same difficulty 81 ~,
esrnaon but yet apP Sn ths Instance In the words
which assure that God has removed our ran M
gressens from US as far a ,bis form Of e1pes
sion II stands alone In unique dignity ana Pol'p
and psihos Who can Ssere does the East begin
where does the East end Who could have hi sns
further % ,Is ,ss i Of n criticism and
~" decent and Just in our acknowledgment that
the bible whence s NOT To be found in other
literature. -, ~,...,on
rsen II is In such relations and coinc'denccs tha'
the es and ars0 0s ,a iU argument yhs
merely in local histories and transient colorihgs'
70 In the mere seeG Sera o. Se WhrS sretche
from the beginning of the book TO- It's END, ana wo
is one and the same In all that Is mOraIS ioi,S anu
whoever compiled It. 1t may have points 1 h . az,
t t,t T. literal or Chronological, but the in
dwelling spirit OF the book never change Wien
comes to pr aDtborbu from beginning 70 end
was and the same.
TO WHAT POINT DID THE SAVIOUR AscESpf
| And vet although We are told indefinitely that
Jesus Christ Is risen in other portions oi inc DOOM
we are told with some precision to what point INC
| Saviour ha. assembled. We are told, LOT eAainpio'
that stephen said 81 saw Heaven open ana inc eo
| ~ Man standing ON the right hand OF Cod "hai
r.rveIous instance Is this of definite indefinite
ncssl We think We going TO hear precisely
where Jesus Christ Is and behold We are iciI III d
| preat an amazement before. Where Is the hgn'
| hand of God Rather, where Is !. mott TIE rish'
| hand Of the Lord fills all things, holds all things
nightly rules all things. The right hand Of the the
lard Is under The hills and behind the blazing suns
sbripk from saying that all hell itself burns within
that Infinite grasp Thus when we eAp "srs ,olI
that He Is at the right hand Of God but when We
| ASH where that hand Is. voice answers "heio -
| In another part OF the New Testament we are
told that Jesus Christ is set down on the nfo1e y.
nave come upon a definite line Of information, bu,
who can tell where the throne of God IA planted !
w. T"I n not also every where DO We not commit
nr,c,;cai baSpbemy when we Iocsze the throne of
God as IL II part OF the furniture D. heNe,,, q
mere article, almost article of eal'"Fs sc. ou''o
he